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  >   name        ruth
 >   status      student
 >   age         50s

 >   Question -  Why does the moon have very little atmosphere?


>It's gravity is too weak to make air molecules stay near it. Light and
>particles emitted by the sun swept most of the light gases away.
>
>Tim Mooney
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